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Urs Hauser, Senior Sales
Manager at Pamasol
Willi Mäder AG, has been
named President of the European
Aerosol Federation
(FEA). Hauser previously
represented the Assoziation
der Schweizerischen
Aerosolindustrie (Switzerland)
in the FEA. He
Hauser
succeeds Gilles Baudin, a L’Oréal executive
and representative of the Comité Français
des Aérosols (France), who held the position
for two years. Baudin will remain on the FEA
Board.
Cassandra Taylor has been
promoted to R&D Regulatory
Supervisor at Nexreg
Compliance Inc. She formerly
served as Regulatory
Specialist.
L’Oréal SA has promoted
Deputy CEO Nicolas Hieronimus to CEO.
A 33-year company veteran, he will take over
on May 1, 2021 and become the company’s
sixth ever CEO. Current CEO Jean-Paul
Agon, who turns the legal retirement age of
65 in July, will remain as Chairman. Barbara
Lavernos will assume the role of Deputy CEO;
she was also recently appointed as President
of Research, Innovation & Technologies,
effective Feb. 1, 2021. She is currently serving
as Executive VP, Chief Technologies & Operations
Officer. Spray
Taylor
Hieronimus Agon Lavernos
Precision completes expansion
of Thai production facility
Precision—global manufacturer and supplier of aerosol valves, actuators and other
dispensing solutions—has announced that the expansion of its production facility in
Thailand is complete. According to the firm, this latest achievement focuses on accelerating
its expansion and illustrates the long-term strategic plan defined by management
in 2018 and supported by ONCAP, Precision’s shareholder.
In total, the expansion adds 2,350 square meters and more than 30% additional floor
space to the facility. The project was designed to optimize workshop layouts, increase the
production capacities of valve and injection molding parts and provide additional warehouse
space. Despite the pandemic challenges of 2020, Precision’s teams were able to keep
to the initial work schedule.
“For our regional partners, major expansion opens a new dimension to Precision Thailand
and means they will be supplied all across the Asia-Pacific region with a new service level
from a state-of-the-art production facility,” said Thierry Bouan, Precision’s Asia-Pacific GM.
“The new Thailand plant will be the keystone of our new regional platform that includes—
in Asia-Pacific—plants in China, Australia, Japan and Thailand,” he concluded.
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OBITUARY
Mario Molina, who
shared a Nobel Prize for
work on chlorofluorocarbons’
(CFCs) effect on the
Photo: Donna Coveney, MIT
ozone layer, died on Oct.
7 at his home in Mexico
City. He was 77. His and
Dr. F. Sherwood Rowland’s research on
their theory of ozone depletion led to the
1987 Montreal Protocol, an international
treaty to phase out the production of
CFCs. In 2004, Molina founded the
Mario Molina Center for Strategic Studies
on Energy & the Environment in
Mexico City to combat the city’s pollution.